Vanessa Bryant and Daughters Cheer on Team USA Basketball as They Dominate Australia to Reach Olympic Gold Medal Game.Giang

Vanessa Bryant and her daughters are a few of Team USA basketball’s No. 1 fans!

Vanessa, 42, sat courtside with her daughters Natalia, 21, Bianka, 7, and Capri, 5, as the U.S. women’s basketball team crushed Australia to win their semifinal game on Friday, Aug. 9 and secure their spot in Sunday’s gold medal match.

The Bryant family watched as Team USA won 84-64, and spent much of the game with nearly a double-digit lead. They’ll play the winner of the next semifinal, between Belgium and hometown France, for a shot at their eighth-straight Olympic gold.

Vanessa and Natalia are close friends of Olympic and WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu, who counted Kobe Bryant as a mentor before his death. They all support each other frequently, with Vanessa and Natalia attending Ionescu’s wedding in March and Ionescu playing basketball with Bianka during the Bryants’ recent visit to New York City.

Ionescu told PEOPLE after the game that she loved having the family there to cheer them on.

“I knew they were going to be here watching the Olympics, supporting me, and that’s always really exciting,” she said. “They always come, whether it’s near or far, to be able to support, and I’m obviously very excited about that.”

The U.S. women’s basketball team has been absolutely dominant since the sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1976. They’ve won nine of 12 possible golds, including seven-straight, and Friday’s semifinal marked their 60th-straight game win.

Ionescu told reporters, including PEOPLE, afterwards that “anything can happen,” in the the Olympics and they plan to “go up a notch for us to be able to win a gold medal” on Sunday.

Along with the Bryants, plenty of other stars packed the court to cheer them on. Natalia switched seats partway through to sit next to retired WNBA star Sue Bird, who’s won five of those seven-straight golds, and her fiancée, former USWNT star Megan Rapinoe, who also has Olympic gold and bronze medals. Vanessa, meanwhile, sat next to South Carolina coach Dawn Staley, who managed Bird and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic team to gold.

On the other end of the row sat men’s basketball stars Kevin Durant and Bam Adebayo, who will play for gold on Saturday against France, and former NBA star Carmelo Anthony.

The U.S. women’s basketball team will go for gold on the final day of the Paris Games, Sunday, Aug. 11, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

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